Tuesday, 30 September 2014

We have no more right to put our
discordant states of mind into the lives of those around us and rob them of
their sunshine and brightness than we have to enter their houses and steal
their silverware. -Julia
Moss Seton

Seek ye counsel
of the aged, for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their
ears have hearkened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing
to you, pay heed to them. -Kahlil Gibran

Just let go. Let go of how you
thought your life should be, and embrace the life that is trying to work its
way into your consciousness. - Caroline
Myss

Do something great by starting
with something small. Do something difficult with something easy. - Bruce Frantzis

Trying times need not drag you
down if you will see them as doorways to new beginnings. - Unknown

Act without striving. Work without
interfering. Find the flavour in what is flavourless. - Lao Tzu

Cheating on a good person is like
throwing away a diamond and picking up a rock. - Unknown

Bashfulness is
an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. - Aristotle

A nightingale
dies for shame if another bird sings better. - Robert Burton

Sunday, 28 September 2014

Learn to enjoy every minute of
your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make
you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to
spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed
and savoured. - Earl Nightingale

Difficult times have helped me to
understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in
every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no
importance whatsoever. - Isak Dinesen

Life is a like a book. Some
chapters sad, some happy, and some exciting. But if you never turn the page,
you will never know what the next chapter holds. - Unknown

Life isn’t meant to be easy, its
meant to be lived … sometimes happy, other times rough. But with every up and
down you learn lessons that make you strong. - Unknown

Life isn’t about meeting
expectations, it’s about pushing past them and venturing into what people
thought was not possible. - Stan Ancheta

The most difficult phase of life
is not when no one understands you. It is when you don’t understand yourself. -
Unknown

Let yourself move to the next
chapter in life when the time comes. Don’t remain stuck on the same page. - Unknown

Life is full of blessings.
Sometimes we are just too blind to see them. - Unknown

All the art of living lies in a
fine mingling of letting go and holding on. - Havelock Ellis

Life is a shipwreck but we must
not forget to sing in the lifeboats. - Voltaire

A person should want to live: If
only out of curiosity. - Yiddish Proverb

Thursday, 25 September 2014

A desire to be observed,
considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of
the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of
man. -John Adams

Some people are
still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and
unexpected, the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere so exemplified as in real
life itself. -Berenice Abbott

Only those who
have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life’s
deepest joy: true fulfillment. - Tony Robbins

If you wish to appear agreeable in
society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already. -Johann Kaspar Lavater

Indolence and
timidity often keep us to our duty, while our virtue carries off all the credit
of doing so. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld

The difficulties and struggles of
today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of
tomorrow. - Unknown

All of us are always going to do
better tomorrow, and we would, too, if only we started today. - Unknown

Take care of
your body. It’s the only place you have to live. -Jim Rohn

When love and
skill work together, expect a masterpiece. -John Ruskin

Diligence is a
very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. - Seneca

Wednesday, 24 September 2014

Being positive does not mean
saying that things are fine when they are not, being positive means being in
touch with your emotions and expressing them appropriately. Life does not
always run smoothly and acceptance of this is at the very heart of positivity.
- Lynda Field

As I began to love myself, I freed
myself of anything that is no good for my health – food, people, things,
situations, and everything that drew me down and away from myself. At first I
called this attitude a healthy egoism. Today I know it is ‘Love of Oneself’. - Charlie Chaplin

Our problem is that we make the
mistake of comparing ourselves with other people. You are not inferior or
superior to any human being … You do not determine your success by comparing
yourself to others; rather you determine your success by comparing your
accomplishments to your capabilities. You are ‘number one’ when you do the best you can with what you have, every day. - Unknown

Democracy is a bit like that old Spanish story of a boy and his
grandfather walking home with their burro on a hot afternoon. The grandfather
rides until a passer-by scolds him for abusing the child. Then the child rides
until somebody complains he is not showing respect for his grandfather. So they
both ride, until another busybody asks how they could be so cruel to the burro.
Somehow, they get home. - Unknown

Sunday, 21 September 2014

Three simple rules in life:If you do not GO after what you want,
you will never have it. If you do not
ASK, the answer will always be NO. If you do not STEP FORWARD, you’ll always be
in the SAME PLACE. - Unknown

The meaning of life is just to be
alive.it is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes
around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond
themselves. - Alan Watts

Life is about balance. Be kind.
But don’t let people abuse you. Trust. But don’t be deceived. Be content. But
never stop improving yourself. - Unknown

Don’t take life so seriously … you
will never get out of it alive. - Elbert
Hubbard

Life really does begin at forty.
Up until then, you are just doing research. -Carl Jung

Life is like an ice cream, enjoy
it before it melts. - Unknown

Life begins at the end of your
comfort zone. So if you’re feeling uncomfortable right now, know that the
change taking place in your life is a beginning, not an ending. - Neale Donald Walsch

Life goes on … whether you choose
to move on and take a chance in the unknown, or stay being, locked in the past,
thinking of what could’ve been. - Unknown

Life is a journey from moment to
moment. Live each moment to its fullest. - Garth
Catterall-Heart

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when
you are riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate,
mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality.
Wake up and live. - Bob Marley

Life is the art of drawing without
an eraser. - John Gardner

The purpose of life is to live it,
to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for
newer and richer experience. - Eleanor
Roosevelt

Saturday, 20 September 2014

We can speak without voice to the
trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond
through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of
the sea. -Paul Tillich

I try to do the
right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they
make the difference between winning and losing. - Kareem
Abdul-Jabbar

Sometimes I would almost rather
have people take away years of my life than take away a moment. -Pearl
Bailey

If you make it plain you like
people, it’s hard for them to resist liking you back. -Lois Mcmaster Bujold

Thursday, 18 September 2014

Starting something new, or making
a big change, requires effort, persistence, and motivation … doubt, fear, and
worry will only slow you down. Focus on doing your best now, and celebrate
every step of the way. - Doe Zantamata

If your
imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when
those requests appeal to their self-interest, you can have practically anything
you go after. - Napoleon Hill

It is this
simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when
addressing popular audiences. - Aristotle

Appreciate those who love you.
Help those who need you. Forgive those who hurt you. Forget those who leave
you. - Unknown

Don’t complain about someone not
treating you right. If you know you deserve better, why are you with them? - Unknown

Accept the things to which fate
binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together. -Marcus Aurelius

No man likes to
have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts
about it himself. -Henry Adams

You can't know
too much, but you can say too much. - Calvin Coolidge

Be to her virtues very kind. Be to
her faults a little blind. -Matthew
Prior

Not being able to govern events, I
govern myself. - Michel De Montaigne

Wednesday, 17 September 2014

Empty yourself of everything. Let
the mind become still. The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self
watches their return. They grow and flourish and then return to the Source.
Returning to the Source is stillness, which is the way of nature. - Lao Tzu

Maybe the journey isn’t so much
about becoming anything. Maybe it’s about un-becoming everything that isn’t
really you so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place. - Unknown

When you step aside and tune in to
the wisdom of the universe, you are preparing the way for new opportunities and
exiting possibilities to show up in your
life. - Sherri Bishop

Be as simple as you can be; you
will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become. - Paramahansa Yogananda

Be content with what you have; rejoice
in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole
world belongs to you. - Lao Tzu

Trust the process of life to
unfold just the way it needs to for your soul’s perfect path. - Sherri Bishop

When you stop doing what insults
yoru Soul, your Journey accelerates and your Life begins to fill with Joy. - Unknown

The heart of all spiritual
teaching is simple. Be love. Be peace. Be harmony. Be compassion. Be joy. - Unknown

It’s your journey and yours alone.
Others may take it with you, but no one can take it for you. - Rumi

Tuesday, 16 September 2014

Everything that is new or uncommon
raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable
surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not
before possessed. -Joseph Addison

The way of moving on sometimes can
be found in figuring out why something had to happen, but other times moving on
can only be found in fully accepting that it did. - Doe Zantamata

I don’t have everything figured
out, but I will always keep trying to do my best, do what’s right and keep
moving forward – one step at a time. - Unknown

Tenderness and
kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength
and resolutions. -Kahlil Gibran

If something seems harder, do it
as a hobby and it will be easier. Call it ‘work’ and it will be harder for you.
- Unknown

We learn and grow and are
transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it. - Sharon Salzberg

Nothing ever goes away until it
teaches us what we need to know. - Pema
Chodron

Every human being is the author of
his own health or disease. - The Buddha

Nothing is really lost. It’s just
where it doesn’t belong. -Suzanne Mueller

Goodwill is
earned by many acts; it can be lost by one. -Duncan Stuart

Thursday, 11 September 2014

Hear the words
of Prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her
maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and
the mistress of human life. -Akhnaton

Contradictions
do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your
premises. You will find that one of them is wrong. -Ayn Rand

When people are too open-minded it
can lead them into being unable to discriminate between sense and nonsense. - Unknown

My eyes can only see and my ears
can only hear. Only my mind can conceive all that which I think I fear. - Unknown

If you miss the first buttonhole,
you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat. - Johann Von Goethe

The porcupine, whom one must
handle gloved, may be respected, but is never loved. - Arthur Guiterman

Sometimes one likes foolish people
for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom. -Elizabeth Gaskell

If it is not seemly, do it not; if it is
not true, speak it not. -Marcus Aurelius

I assert that
nothing ever comes to pass without a cause. -Jonathan Edwards

It is a very hard undertaking to
seek to please everybody. - Publilius Syrus

Wednesday, 10 September 2014

To love. To be loved. To never
forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence
and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places.
To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or
complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to
watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget. -
Arundhati Roy

I wanted a perfect ending. Now
I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t
have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to
change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s
going to happen next. - Gilda Radner

Monday, 8 September 2014

Quotes which are funny, ironical, as well as
simply, or profoundly true.

I stopped
believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a
department store and he asked for my autograph. - Shirley Temple Black

I suppose it is
much more comfortable to be mad and not know it than to be sane and have one’s doubts. - George Brown Burgin

I suppose that I shall have to die
beyond my means. - Oscar Wilde on being charged a large fee for an operation

I think I've discovered the secret
of life - you just hang around until you get used to it. - Charles Schulz

I think we consider too much the
good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm. - Franklin Roosevelt

I think we risk becoming the
best informed society that has ever died of ignorance. - Unknown

I used to think
I was poor. Then they told me I was not poor, I was needy. They told me it was
self-defeating to think of myself as needy, I was deprived. (Oh not deprived
but rather underprivileged.) Then they told me underprivileged was overused. I
was disadvantaged. I still don't have a dime but I have a great vocabulary. - Jules Feiffer

I wish I could be half as sure of
anything as some people are of everything. - Gerald Barzan

I wish there was a knob on the TV
to turn up the intelligence. There’s a knob called “brightness”, but it doesn’t
seem to work. - Gallagher

I would never want to be a member
of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood. - George Carlin

I’ll
give you a definite maybe. - Samuel Goldwyn

I’m always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I’m
listening to it. - George Carlin

I’m like a big old hen. I can’t cluck too long about
the egg I’ve just laid because I’ve got five more inside me pushing to get out. - Louis
L'Amour